Manufacturing

Designing and building complex products to exact customer specifications frequently involves long lead times and heavy engineering content. Engineer-to-order, project-based, and custom manufacturers typically have most of these characteristics:

Complex products, long lead times

Design and build to a project or contract

Need to estimate and quote to win business

Uniquely design and build to customer specifications

Need to track customer revisions

Purchase material to a project

Collect actual costs to a project

Install products on customer’s site

Need to track warranty and provide aftermarket services

Significant spare parts business

Engineer-to-order companies need to be able to provide accurate cost estimates to customers, manage all aspects of complex projects, deliver on time and on budget-all while keeping a close eye on cash flow. Finally, they need an accurate picture of the profitability of each project in order to comprehend the impact on the business.

Key Features of our solution for manufacturers include:

Purchase directly to stock or to a project

Full ERP system supports company purchase of direct and indirect materials, MRO and services.

Purchase Orders can be for stock or directly for a project. On receipt the material goes directly to Work-in-Progress (WIP) and the cost is allocated to the project as WIP or COGS.

Vendor Performance ranks suppliers based on delivery, quality and price. If designated, a PO line item can be received directly into Inspection for quality verification and, if necessary, returned to the vendor.

Inventory Management without Item Numbers

Because most materials are purchased to the job, you don’t want the constraints of an item-based system, which requires all item transactions to go to/from inventory.

Bill of material structures for a project does not require the use of an item number. You may choose to enter a part first in the item master or not. If you elect to use the item master, you can define a standard description, long description, unit of measure conversions, preferred vendors, cross references and many other fields. By specifying stocked or non-stocked, the system will manage your inventory accurately.